Antitelescoping railway-train guard.



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W. BQHEYBUB. NTITELESCOPING RAILWAY TRAIN GUARD.

(Application filed Jan. 22, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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headoncollision oflocomotives providedy Y with my improved pilots NITEDSTATES omen.

WELDoN HEYBURN,

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ANTITEL Escolemel RAILWAY-'rama GUARD, i

srncrrmnrron forming para of Letter. Patent No.

Application filed anuary 22. 1902. Serial No. 90,777 i l(No model.)

fication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.-

This invention has for its object to provide means for reducingor'avoiding the dangers to life and limb by railroad travel andresulting in the .telescoping of trains by reason of head-on or rear-endcollisions. In some terrible railway accidents which have occurred inthe past locomotive-engines have been known torise up and practicallyleap over onto the tops of passenger-cars, crushing` them down and bythe continued running of the engines grinding up thecars and passengers.The dangers of railway travel are lessened in accordance with my presentinvention by providing each of the locomotives with -a rigidly-attachedheavy and strongly-built pilot,

havin gits frbnt face beveled horizon tally, so as to be diagonal to therailwaytracks,' and also preferably by providing a special rear car foreach of the trains, having a strongly-built and heavy rear portion, therear face of which will be horizontally beveled reversely to the beveledpilots of the locomotives. The front beveledlocomotive-pilots and therear beveled rear end guards for the trains will be of such considerableheights as to'prevent the engines from overriding the cars by upwardleaping or rising. Thus in the levent of a rear-end collision either thelocomotive or the rear end car,or both,wouldbe derailed or shuntedsidewise from the impact of the collision, thereby In the event of a oneor both of the locomotives would be derailed and telescoping of thetrains be thus avoided.`

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plalryiew, and Fig. 2 an.elevation, conventionally illustrative of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, a denotes a lov comotive-engine, which may beof any proper or approved construction, and b denotes a heavy pilot of aheight as near to the height wheels,

of the locomotive. asis practicable, said .pilotbeing strongly attachedto the engine and having its front face beveled horizontally andpreferably entirelyacrossso as to b e diagonal to the length oftheengine-.and to the tracks.'

on which the trains run. preferably be of steel and very stronglyconstructed and braced, so as to be able to withstand a very heavy shockwithout collapsing, and it. willl preferably be provided with sothatiits weightwill be entirely or largely sustained -by the tracksrather than by theeng'ine, with which latter it will be Thepiiot b winbetter not to encumber the very considerable weight of the pilot.construction 'between` the engine and the Some little looseness ofstrongly-attached pilot may be4 desirable to.

provide for proper running on curves -or in L equalities of the road,andthe improved guard;

pilot will preferably be of aS great a height as will be'admiss'ible Vand still `not interfere with or obscure the headlight ofthe locomotive.

. For the bests'successful coperation with my improved locomotive pilotsvin guarding rear-end collisions I against the dangers of propose toprovide'each of thev trains witha special rear-guard car, as c, the rearend of which will have a heavy beveled guard, as

d, preferablyof steel and strongly braced, so

as to withstand severe shocks without collaps ing. To provide such anextended vertical impact-surface of theA rear prevent upward leaping oroverrunning of either of the contacting parts in caseof. collision, saidguard d is of a height practicallyequal t'o the height of the body .ofthe car c. The special car c may be use either as a passenger orbaggage4 car or for the accommodation of storage batteries or dynamosfor the eleciric lighting of the train, and the beveled rear guard dwill preferably be m'ade as afrigid part of the car c and running onwheels.

From the foregoing it will be understood that in the 4event Y on orrear-end9-of locomotives and trains provided with one or the other, orboth, of the colliding vehicles will be derailed or shunted sidewise, sothat telescoping of trains'and theattendant awful horrors will beavoided.

I am aware that it is not new, broadly; to

adapted for of acollision (either headguard d as will l yantitelescoping devices'.

reo

lt t0 practically or appr-fg,

prevideiraillvay-irains ,with l.: vveled devices for avei'din'-:1telescoping-'-sncn, for example, as beveled platforms or crushablecars partly lbeveled-lout these prior devices were not of euchconstruction as toeiectively prevent the engines or cars from leaping orrising np under great shocks, so that in such event beveled parteheretofore provided could pass each other, and thus fail to effectivelyserve their intended purposes as 'antitelescoping devices.,

My invention, as will be understood, contemplates providing a rails-vehicle (either a locomotive or rear can;y with a heavy andstrongly-builtk guard of ci. 'siderable height and having a single heve`face oan exmately reach across the railway or the Width of the vehicle,said guard being preferably of steel or iron and havingsniiieientstrength to resist heavy shocks Without collapsing, and which guard'will have a sniticiently-cxtended vertical impact-surface to `causederailment or side or horizontal shifting of one or both of thecolliding objects without danger of collapsing or without liability ofthe colliding vehiclesr passing each other vertically, thus elfeetivelyavoiding crushing of cars' by overriding or "l rearing engines, as wellas scoping.

avoiding telerllhe invention .is not to be understood asv being limitedto the details bf construction herein shown and described, as thesemaybe varied widely Within the limits of mechanical slr'ill withoutdeparting from the essence of the invention.

Having thus claim -and desire to secure by Letters ent-4'- l.,Arailivay-vehcle provided with an antitelescoping metallic guard ofconsiderable height and having a single beveled impactace diagonal tothe length of `the train o r to the railway and which face is 'of an;extent to practically reach across the width of said vehicle. f

described my invention, l

Pitt- 2. A railway-vehicle provided with an antii ported.

.the car, said guard portion ci'sai ric-asie telescoping metallic guardlof a height as nearly equal. to the body of the vehicle as ispracticable, said metallic guard being supported on Wheels and having asingle beveled impact-face diagonal to the length of the train or to therailway and of an extent to practically reach across said vehicle.

3. A railway-locomotive provided with a heavy and strongly-built pilotot' a height as near tothe height ofthe locomotive as is practicable,and having a single vertical beveled. front face of the height of thebody of the pilot, and diagcnal to the railway, and prac-- ticallyextending across the latter.,

1i. A railway-locomotive provided with a heavy and strongly-built pilothaving a single vertical beveled front face diagonal to the railway andpractically extending across the latter, said pilot being provided withwheels by which its considerable Weight is sup 5. A rear-endrailway-guard car,- for coperation with a locoinotive-pilothaving afront beveled face, said car beingprovided with a strongly-builtrear-end guard'portion forming-a rigid part of the car and having asingle vertical beveled rear face diagonal to the railway andpractically extending across the latter, said rear-end strongly-builtguard being l of a height practically equal to the height ci the body ofthe car.

6. A rear-end railway-guard car, for coperation with a locomotive-pilothaving a iron beveled face, said car being provided with strongly-builtrear-end guard portion sonstructed of metal andformih rigid part olf drheinge a height practically cqualto body of the car and having able-vertical, beveled rear face diagonal to theraiInlay'andv practicallyextending across thelatter.

. In testimony whereof I ailixmy signature in presence of two Witnesses.l

' i WELDON B. IiEYBURN-.g

Witnesses: ,LoUIs L. ODELL,

O-'r'ro HUELLEMANN..

